I've done a number of talks on Productivity in the past. Lots of folks ask me what my tips are for being productive. I've taken all those tips as well as tips from Kathy Sierra, Stephen Covey, David Allen, The Pomodoro Technique and many more and aggregated them into a system that works well for me. I talk about how to effectively handle large amounts email, sorting your personal data stream, how to conserve your keystrokes, the "one email rule" that you need to be effective

I'm giving this talk in a few places in the coming months like StirTrek in Ohio, DevCon in Russia, and possibly "That Conference" in Wisconsin. If you will be attending one of these events, you might want to wait and see it in person. ;)

There's a few jokes in the beginning of the talk that refer back to some discussion about Gamification and a funny back and forth that Kathy Sierra and I had. If they don't make sense, that's the context.

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

Scott, how are you?When did you realize personally about the 'myth' of keeping up?How do you handle your professional capacitation?Lately, I'm realizing of it; and you are helping me a lot.I'm not efficient less, neither effective less at work; but I think that I could use my 'out of office' time more efficiently and effectively.I no know everything but I know where to find it (I like to read books, blogs, view videos, conferences, learn with courses like Pluralsight's, etc.). There is plenty of content spread in the Internet, I need to know what to ignore. Anyway, I am willing to learn and grow professionally every day; that's the important thing.Thank you very much for sharing this resources and your experience.Best regards.A friend from Argentina.

Francisco Ruiz

Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:29:13 UTC

awesome

Cezar

Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:04:25 UTC

How do you handle your professional capacitation training?

Capacitación (ES) = Training (EN)

Sorry.

Francisco Ruiz

Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:22:13 UTC

Guess I'll just bookmark this for watching once you decide if you'll "possibly" present it at That Conference in August.

I've seen your talk a few times, the part about responding to questions through a blog resonates with me. Do you do both internal (to the death star) and public blogging? I'm pretty sure I'd get some push back if I publicly blogged all of my internal development questions. I'd be interested in your take on it.

Mark

Friday, 27 April 2012 06:41:37 UTC

Just a heads up - the vimeo video doesn't play from iPhone. Had to go to vimeo.com and search for it.

Finally got around to watching this, some excellent tips in there and great insights, especially the 'rat wired up / pull to refresh'. Just set up / downloaded Instapaper, thinking about setting up the "If That Then That" account for Twitter faves with links to Instapaper :-)

Especially interesting is your comment (and blog post) about the lack of people blogging and tweeting instead, something that I'm guilty of - or is that just psychic weight? ;-)

Ta for sharing, will re-watch again a few times, I think - if only for Darth Vader on a cat.

I can definitely empathise with clearing the desk and getting a haircut when the mind gets cluttered. I'd add taking a walk around the park nearby.

Mark Hewitt

Thursday, 02 August 2012 15:02:55 UTC

That was a great speech. I have been fighting this very issue lately. With a 5 month old, many house projects, trying to spend time with the family, watch movies/tv shows, play those old games I've been wanting to play for a long time, and reading all those tech books I have plus all the fictional books I have..... It seems like life it in full overload and nothing I do will get me any closer to that goal of stuff = done! Heck, I knock out one house project and my house seems to think its funny for two more things to break and I wish I was making that up.

This speech really helped me reorg my thoughts and some stuff I was already starting to do. I had already dropped many blogs I was reading done to the ones I felt are really necessary -don't worry Scott - yours made the cut :). And I started to do stuff while I was doing other things - like listen to this developer life while working out, etc. But this took it to the next level and I thank you for sharing this.

Awesome video and suggestions. I've often felt that I should be able to get more done during the day but time seemed to fly away. I implemented the email suggestions and stopped refreshing reports throughout the day because they wouldn't actually impact the things I had to get done. These two things helped significantly. Thanks for the video.

Matthew

Tuesday, 25 September 2012 05:42:00 UTC

An error occurred when half of the video was played and Now its not playing at all, not even here http://vimeo.com/39020426. Do you have any alternate location like youtube for this video?